Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-01-29
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Footpads are bold at San Luis Obispo.
Dwellings are going up rapidly at Colusa.
The Petaluma steam laundry has shut
down.
Santa Barbara and Pasadena are to build
theatres.
Alturas hunters killed 2,ooo rabbits the
other day.
Los Angeles new Court House is to cost
$3.50, 900.
Rnbberics by tramps are frequent at San
Bernardino.
A ssnew town" near Santa Monica con-
tains but two houses.
The rain in Los Angeles has done but lit
tie good to the grain.
Los Angeles proposes to close its saloons
after midnight hereafter.
Daugherty, the asylum escape, is still at
large in San Luis Obispo.
Arizona wants government aid in the con-
struction of artcsian wells.
Another discovery of coal has been made
at Elsinore, San Diego county.
The swamps between Anaheim and the
coast are crowed with wild geese.
Boys under sixteen years Of age can no
longer buy tobacco at Grass Valley.
Coyotes are very destructive in Sonoma
county, and also in San Luis Obispo.
"Faith, hope and climate" is the motto Of
an association organized at Los Angeles.
Rufus F. Buell. has been commissioned
Postmaster at Childs, Santa Barbara county.
The Arizona Legislature has passed bill
to build levees on the west bank of the ella
at Yuma.
John Melvin cut his wife's throat with
razor at Ogden, Utah, Tuesday. The woman
was not fatally injured.
Turlock, Stanislaus county, is quite
large grain center, and is the shipping point
for large section Of country.
The Southern Pacific and the Atchison
System will run their lines from Los Angeles
to La Ballona close together.
Six passengers were badly bruised by the
overtnrning Of the stage between Templeton
and San Luis Obispo this week.
The I3-year.old daughter of James Sun
derland of Anderson, Shasta county, was
drowned in Leggit Island Slough.
The oil flow struck in building the founda-
ton for the new Post Office at Los Angeles,
continues and is of the finest quality.
A new postoffice has been erected at
Echoes, San Diego county, and Lizzie w.
Mahoney, has been appointed Postmistress.
Lois Steen, Sam Woolley, James HALEY,
and William McCloskey have been arrested
for the murder of Homer J. Stone, at Price,
Utah.
Charles Goslaw has been held to answer
without bail at San Jose, for the murder Of
Henry A. Grant at Los Gatos, on Wednes-
day night.
Mike Donnelly was arrested at Walker
Vile, M. T., this week, charged with being
connected with the Glendale stage robbery
and morder.
The Fremont grant in Marposa has chang
ed hands and work has been commenced by
the new purchasers in farming, mining and
milling on large scale.
The trial of Fanny Weizel charged with
killing her seducer, Jacob Klein, at Sacra-
mento some months ago, is exciting consid
cradle interest at Sacramento.
George Kunz has been found guilty, al
Weaverville, Trinity county, of the murder
Of George Erickson, last fall. The verdict
of the jury calls for death by hanging.
John Slaughter, resident of Etna, was
frozen to death on Scott Mountain, nineteen
miles north of Trinity Center, Tuesday. He
was within mile and half of succor.
The Southern Pacific advertises to take
out ten car train of oranges from Los An.
geles Friday, while the Southern California
announces that it will do the same Saturday.
Red Bluff wants the Sacramento Valley
and Humboldt Bay Railroad to start from
that place instead of Paskenta, seven mile:
south, and held a meeting this week to Sc
cure that object.
The acreage in Stanislaus county planted
in grain is quite as large as that of last yeal
and crops are reported to be looking splen
did. Only about two inches of rain had
fallen in the vicinity of Turlock.
Miss Ida Smith, school teacher at An
derson, Shasta county, had the trunks of q
minstrel company stopping at the hote
searched for missing watch and chain Sat
urday. The jewelry was not found and tn,
company missed the cars for the next tow
where they were billed,